Senator Cruz is the first candidate to run for president in 2020, announcing the forming of multiple organizations for such purpose even prior to the official nomination by the Republican Party of Donald Trump in the summer of 2016. Cruz thinks this is 1976 (it isn't), and that Cruz is Ronald Reagan (Cruz isn't).[4] By most accounts Cruz ended his national political career by initially refusing during his televised address at the Republican 2016 convention to endorse Donald Trump, and Cruz was loudly booed by the audience for it.[5] Eventually, Cruz did endorse Trump,[6] but not before becoming the recipient of anger and disdain from many for his hesitation.

Cruz's wife Heidi is an executive for Goldman Sachs and was on leave from that liberal investment bank during the campaign, where she played a dominant strategically and for defining policy positions and fundraising. Ted Cruz has sided with some feminist positions. Heidi has been a member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations and was on the task force that recommended the leftistNorth American Union.[7][8] Reportedly neither Ted Cruz nor his wife donated anything to churches, including what they describe as their own church, from 2006 to 2010, the most recent time period Cruz has released.[9]

Cruz is promoted heavily by neocons who like his interventionalist foreign policy, but some conservatives see more grandstanding than achievement on social issues.

In the Texas Senate primary elections of May 29, 2012, Cruz finished second to Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, but the nine-candidate Republican field forced a run-off. On July 31, Cruz defeated Dewhurst in a second round of voting. Cruz easily defeated Democrat former State Representative Paul Sadler in the general election.

Senate career

Cruz was elected as a member of the Senate in 2012. Beginning on September 24, 2013, Cruz gave a 21-hour speech on the senate floor against Obamacare. The speech greatly boosted his national profile and led to denunciations from the liberal media.[13] His arguments at the time that once ObamaCare was fully implemented, it would be impossible to repeal it, were shown accurate when the GOP had serious trouble agreeing to a repeal-and-replace plan in 2017.[14]

largest longtime contributor is a gay billionaire who supports same-sex marriage and marijuana legalization, campaign finance filings show. Peter Thiel, a German-born hedge fund manager and founder of the online payment system PayPal, gave Cruz $251,000 in 2009 for his aborted run for attorney general. The money represented 19 percent of the total raised for that campaign, which Cruz ended after Attorney General Greg Abbott decided to run for re-election.

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The Texas Monthly ran a similar exposé entitled, "Ted Cruz's Gay Marriage Money." This article described how one of Cruz's donors has been:[16]

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Paul Elliott Singer of the hedge fund Elliott Management Corporation. Singer, whose son married his partner, donated $425,000 and raised another $500,000 to push for legalization of same-sex marriage in New York. In 2012, Singer donated $1 million to the American Unity PAC, with the purpose of supporting candidates who back gay marriage. Singer gave Cruz $25,000 in 2009.

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In April, the New York Times ran an article about the special fundraising meeting that Cruz had in Manhattan with homosexual potential donors: "At New York Reception, Ted Cruz Said to Strike Different Tone Toward Gays."

Judicial nominees

Cruz speaking at the Iowa GOP's Growth and Opportunity Party in Des Moines on October 31, 2015.

Ted Cruz recommended Judge Gregg Costa for nomination and confirmation to the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.[17] As a Senator from Texas, Cruz could have blocked the nomination. Instead, Cruz's support made it happen.

Within five months of his confirmation in May 2014, Judge Costa then voted in favor of rehearing Planned Parenthood's case in their attempt to reverse a Fifth Circuit's ruling that had upheld the pro-women, pro-life Texas House Bill 2, a good law that resulted in the closure of roughly half the abortion clinics in Texas. Judge Edith Jones and the majority of the Fifth Circuit outvoted Costa on the petition for rehearing en banc in Planned Parenthood of Greater Tex. Surgical Health Servs. v. Abbott.[18]

It was obvious prior to Ted Cruz's recommendation that Judge Costa was not pro-life. In one of his decisions as a United States district court judge in 2012, Judge Costa uncritically cited Roe v. Wade for a procedural point. Judge Costa had also been a Democrat volunteer in college in the 1990s.

2016 presidential race

Cruz speaking at a Town Hall Meeting at New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire on February 3, 2016.

On March 23, 2015, Cruz became the first person to announce his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president in 2016 in a speech before an audience at Liberty University.[19] The predictable liberal media immediately went on the offense claiming he has no chance but was in awe of his speech without teleprompters.[Citation Needed] His wife would take a leave of absence from her job at Goldman Sachs to join her husband on the campaign trail. This decision left his family without health insurance. Cruz, by law, has to be insured and took Obamacare coverage. This drove the media batty at the irony of railing against Obamacare but using it.[Citation Needed]

Cruz would raise $4 million in donations after the first week of his announcement. Liberal media jaws hit the floor when it was learned he raised $31 million in one week from PACs.[20]

Eligibility

The same liberals who mocked opponents of Obama for claiming he was not born in Hawaii have decided to make the same case against Cruz for being born in Canada. Cruz's mother being an American citizen (even though she voted in Canadian elections), just like Obama's mother, insures that he is American no matter what country he was born in. There are several differences in Obama/Cruz birth certificate controversies. Cruz released his immediately after it was requested. Obama held onto his for years, spending nearly $4 million in legal fees.[Citation Needed] Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship on May 14, 2014.[21]

Showing his support for Taiwan over the communist and authoritarian People's Republic of China, Cruz met with the Taiwanese president in January 2017, along with Texas governor Greg Abbott, even after China sent a statement asking members of Congress not to do so.[27]

Border Patrol agents have spoken highly of Cruz for advocating for them and a secure border with Mexico.[28]

Despite voicing support for protecting American sovereignty, Cruz hypocritically supports NAFTA despite it being a threat to sovereignty.[29]

Best selling author

The New York Times has engaged in a scheme to keep Cruz's book off of its bestseller list.[30] At issue was the practice of some politicians to pre-purchase a large quantity of books for use by their campaigns with the hope that those purchases would place the books on the bestseller list for one week. The New York Times tries to exclude those bulk campaign purchases from the totals used to determine which books have the top sales. The question is whether the bestseller list shows what books the public buys rather than which books the politicians give away.

Quote

"Tonight's speech was less a State of the Union and more a state of denial." (January 12, 2016)

Books

A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America (2015)Ted Cruz: For God and Country (2015)

References

↑Cruz has been listed as an author of more than eighty U.S. Supreme Court briefs and personally argued in nine before the U.S. Supreme Court, plus another 31 before other courts. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.